This is the Rathaus-Glockenspiel on Marienplatz in Munich, Germany. The Rathaus is the town hall, it was built in 1908. The Glockenspiel is the music played when this larger that life cuckoo clock chimes at 11am and 5pm every day. The chimes re-enacts two different stories, the top is the wedding of Duke Wilhelm V (he founded the Hofbrauhaus, reason enough for a celebration). The bottom is the story of the Cooper Dance during the plague of 1517.
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